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Following the death on June 5 of Scholastic's longtime chief Richard Robinson, the board names Peter Warwick to succeed him. The post Industry Notes: Peter Warwick Named Scholastic’s New CEO appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Following the death on June 5 of Scholastic's longtime chief Richard Robinson, the board names Peter Warwick to succeed him. The post Industry Notes: Peter Warwick Named Scholastic’s New CEO appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Jessie Burton’s sequel to her bestseller The Miniaturist will be published as a super-lead title by Picador in July 2022.

Phaidon made an operating loss of £1.3m in the year ending June 30th 2020, a 33% bigger loss than the previous year, due to the "adverse effects" of multiple national lockdowns, according to accounts filed at Companies House. 

Hachette UK has partnered with Tesco to support the retailer’s first Health Charity Book Club, exclusively featuring titles from the publisher.  

Lauren Child's latest story focuses on Christmas in a Clarice Bean story that is full of empathy and hope

If 2020’s UK print book sales were buoyant, the first half of 2021 looks to have been still better—as far as can be deduced given the data gaps caused by lockdown. 

Graeme Macrae Burnet was picked out by the literary spotlight when his second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016. Published by small indie Saraband, it tells of a brutal triple murder in the remote Scottish Highlands in 1869 via witness statements, a memoir written by the accused and a…

Penguin Michael Joseph has signed a collection of interconnected stories from bestselling crime author Tim Weaver.

Newly recruited Virago publishing director Anna Kelly has made her first acquisition for the imprint with Harvard student Becca Rothfeld’s debut essay collection All Things Are Too Small.